The U.S. Supreme Court has added another originalist justice in Amy Coney Barrett. Jon Guze discusses Barrett’s likely impact on the high court during the next edition of Carolina Journal…
Michael Bills writes for the Martin Center about the role governing boards must play in addressing struggling colleges’ challenges. Before the COVID-19 pandemic walloped our colleges and universities, higher education…
A recent poll suggests that North Carolina will produce another close presidential battle in 2020. Rick Henderson analyzes presidential numbers and other highlights from the latest Civitas Poll for the…
Changes in social media have created challenges for N.C. lawmakers and courts as they try to balance free-speech rights with efforts to protect the public from sexual predators and other…
Jay Schalin of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy highlights a disturbing requirement for students in one UNC education school. According to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro…
Once considered among the top disciplines on a college campus, English has lost much of its intellectual rigor. English departments also have lost much of their enrollment. A recent Pope…
University English departments once were considered “the crown jewels of the humanities.” Now? Not so much. Jay Schalin documents the disturbing change in the new Pope Center report titled The…
One of the most contentious issues in North Carolina arose earlier this year when the UNC system’s Board of Governors (BOG) voted to close UNC-Chapel Hill law school’s Center on Work, Poverty and Opportunity.…
If you couldn’t guess already—the UNC law professor and head of the new N.C. Poverty Research Fund don’t like it: “The decision to hamper Greensboro voters’ ability to alter the…
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare subsidies for states such as North Carolina, health care reformers will need to take a new approach to fixing problems tied…
And perhaps you had heard that it was among the ostensibly “academic” centers that was closed by the UNC Board. Well, IT’S BACK. In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin…
In recent months and years, developments within the University of North Carolina system – such as the academic fraud scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill and the closure of three campus centers…